Artificial Intelligence and the Bible: Is it all following a script?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 King James Bible

“And the Word was God.” Within those five words may be found the unfathomable mystery of existence itself. The New Testament has at least 147 verses that reference some variation of “for it is written” or “in order for the scriptures to be fulfilled.” I’ve counted them all and written them down. The Bible goes out of its way to inform the reader that history is following a script. Why does the Bible put such great emphasis on this fact? Let’s hold that thought for the time being. The secret is in the words themselves. Perhaps even God Himself is hiding in the words, hiding in plain sight, in expression itself.

Artificial Intelligence permanently breached the popular zeitgeist in recent years and doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. It’s been around since the first half of the 20th century, and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey envisioned a pretty bleak relationship between the thinking machines and the human race. Isn’t it curious how, in 1968, the black monolith Stanley Kubrick used to symbolize extraterrestrial nonhuman intelligence looked just like a smartphone? Down to the exact dimensions of those portable brains we carry in our pockets when we aren’t staring at them to decide which video we want to watch next via the wireless neural link. The mystery is in the words. The secret to the mystery will be revealed in the relationship the words have with each other over the course of history. What is most amazing of all is the fact that we can see this playing out in real time right before our very eyes!

From 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) – Trailer (PD0)

The Apostle Paul characterizes the gospel of Jesus Christ as a mystery kept hidden from before the beginning of Time that will soon be revealed and is in the process of being revealed to the world. There are at least 30 verses in the Pauline epistles where he expounds this mystery with unbounded excitement. Mystery, mystery, mystery! Paul can hardly contain himself! We are living in strange times indeed, and the full unveiling of the mystery of all mysteries is upon us.

The mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann first coined the term “technological singularity” in 1950. It didn’t take the pioneers in artificial intelligence and computer science very long to realize that technology, with the help of artificial intelligence, was advancing at such an exponential clip that even in the first half of the 20th century, it was not difficult to foresee a day in the not-too-distant future where human beings could no longer maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology. It was clear from the get-go that technology would eventually reach a point where even the smartest human beings could scarcely hold a candle to the computational powers of the thinking machines. This point, this place, this concept, this event, is known as the technological singularity. The operative word here is singularity. The mystery will be revealed in the words.

Alan Turing, widely considered the godfather of artificial intelligence, while breaking codes for the British and United States military during World War II, devised something he called the imitation game, or the Turing test. The Turing test established the parameters by which we can know when artificial intelligence has met and exceeded the human race’s ability to maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology. The Turing test is met and exceeded once artificial intelligence can simulate or imitate what we have hitherto referred to as “reality” with such precision and sophistication that we don’t know the difference with our five senses between what is “real” and what is faked.

In 2014, The Imitation Game, a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, came out in theaters. Right around that same time, I started noticing more and more YouTube videos pertaining to this concept of the technological singularity popping up as suggested viewing on my computer and smartphone. It was also the time frame when our smartphones were starting to make leaps and bounds in advancement that were increasingly noticeable over short periods of time. As our world continues its radical transformation through artificial intelligence into a “Brave New World,” it’s easy to lose track of the fact that this explosion in rapidly advancing technology has only reached quantum speeds in recent years. These terms are relative and subjective, but I believe the feeling is shared among a consensus. In the simplest terms, the past ten years have been, to quote, the beloved and late psychonaut Terence McKenna before he left his mortal coil in 2000, “indescribable beyond belief”.

For example, seven months ago, Donald Trump sat down with Joe Rogan to do a podcast. Or did he? I have played snippets of this simulated conversation generated by artificial intelligence in front of an audience of 50 people, under the pretense that it was real, only to prove the point that not one single person in the audience had any suspicions that it was fake. People were commenting on how they didn’t know Donald Trump was such a huge fan of mixed martial arts, naturally coming up as a topic of conversation, given the fact Joe Rogan is the face of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. I laughed along for a few minutes, but then when I revealed the truth that it was all a simulation, a fake, every jaw in the room hit the floor. That got their attention.

I ran the same experiment with a friend of mine who is the CEO of his own cybersecurity company and can pretty much hack into any computer system that isn’t safeguarded by the latest top-of-the-line security software. “Donald Trump likes the UFC, of course he would, why wouldn’t he? That’s cool he sat down with Joe Rogan not too long ago. I must have missed it. When was that?” I played along. It is cool! I told my friend what is even more interesting about this conversation than the fact that Donald Trump is a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship is that it never happened! It was all simulated by artificial intelligence. That is when my friend looked at me with eyes as wide as saucers and said, “That passes the Turing test.” It does indeed.

The implications and significance of this fact are beyond reckoning. First of all, it tells us that the potential for the manipulation of perception on a global scale is now limitless, and probably has been for quite some time. It also begs the question, how long have the powers that be who pull the strings in government and mass media had this technology available to them? It’s a conservative estimate that the military-industrial complex that rules our world has technology well in advance of what’s made available to the public by at least a generation, and when I say I’m being conservative, you know it’s likely much more advanced than that in reality. The point here is we can speculate all we want on the timeline of when artificial intelligence exceeded the Turing test, the imitation game, but that’s a fruitless endeavor. The cold, hard truth is that it has, and this Donald Trump and Joe Rogan simulated conversation is tangible proof of the tip of an iceberg that reaches to the bottom of the ocean and then keeps going. That being said, ironically, I believe there is a very simple, practical solution to this Gordian knot we find ourselves in. I will come to that shortly.

The mystery is in the words. Why describe this technological phenomenon as a singularity? The word “singularity” is immeasurably significant and precise and dovetails perfectly with the Bible. It fits perfectly with Hinduism, the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato’s argument for the immortality of the soul in the Trial and Death of Socrates, among others. But now, let’s look at its connections with the Bible.

The Bible speaks of two singularities. In Genesis chapter 1, out of the formless void, God creates the world, our world of duality. Good and evil, light and dark, young and old, the land and the sea. The formless void is a singularity of darkness. At the end of Revelation, in chapters 21 and 22, in the last two chapters of the Bible, we find another singularity described. This time, it is a singularity of light. For the new heaven and new earth, as prophesied at the end of the Bible, are characterized, in no uncertain words, as the transformation of our present world of duality into a singularity of light.

The fingerprints of this transformation can be found and have been felt all throughout history. One doesn’t need to look any farther back in time than the late 19th century when Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the zeitgeist of his time by declaring that the human race had been reduced to nothing but a herd animal with a few noble exceptions. He predicted the Overman must come, for it was inevitable even 135 years ago. The hippies and flower children of the 1960s knew that a New Age was dawning; they called it the Age of Aquarius. Being raised in a Baptist church, it was common knowledge in the 1990s that the tribulation and rapture would happen before the year 2000, and what about that insurmountable obstacle the bank’s computers had of rolling over to the year 2000?

Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 (PD0)

It used to be a well-kept secret that the great work of the Ages is to correct what is perceived as the error of the creation of our world of duality by the demiurge, a creator being but not quite the “big G.” From the mystery schools of antiquity to the “Illuminati,” the light-bringers, “the deep state,” or whatever other nebulous term is thrown around to describe the “powers that be” that are working to create a “One World Everything.” The entire crux of the “Global Conspiracy” is the transformation of our world of duality into a singularity. A one-world order, a one-world government, and a one-world army, all coordinated by a bunch of bureaucrats taking orders at the UN! You could even make a valid claim and use all of known history to support your argument that all of history tells this story of transformation into a New Age and the struggle to achieve it.

There is very strong evidence that we have already reached the technological singularity, and I argue this point in my books. The mystery is revealed in the words. The mystery is in the deeper meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is a reason why The Apostle Paul ended half his sentences with exclamation points!

The Bible also speaks about a Universal Deception that will precede the dawning of the New Age. Artificial Intelligence, the mystery is in the words. Artificial is something that is not real but has the mere appearance of being real, something simulated, something that, more often than not, has the intention to deceive. Look around at our world. Since the global lockdowns of March 2020, is there any better summary of our world than Universal Deception?

Gutenberg Bible, photo: NYC Wanderer (CCBYSA2.0)

The Bible says to test everything. The fingerprints of this transformation can be seen in all religions, in all philosophies, in all psychologies, in all foundational forms of thought, throughout all history. What seals the deal is that smartphone whose full potential we haven’t even scratched the surface of yet. We are all walking around with tangible, unbelievable technology in our pockets that is doing new tricks each week, and we all know it, yet how does all of this play out? That’s the million-dollar question. It’s my humble position that I have answered that question in my books. Only time will tell.

So, where does this leave us? Every day, it’s getting crazier and crazier, and it feels like World War III is on our doorstep. The potential for the manipulation of perception on a global scale is limitless, and we know the governments of the world and those in the shadows behind the curtain pulling the strings are hellbent on enslaving the entire human race. What do we do? What can anyone do? In my humble opinion, I believe the answer is as simple as it gets once enough people realize how the game is played.

For make no mistake about it, life is a game. Life is the greatest game ever devised. Those in power control the flow of information, and they have a weapon at their disposal that is perhaps the greatest weapon in all of existence: artificial intelligence. This weapon gives the powers that be the ability to not only control the flow of information but to create information from nothing, to literally fake anything and everything they wish, and make it believable through a screen. Therein lies the secret.

All information today that we receive through a screen is suspect. Be it a smartphone, TV, radio, laptop computer, if you didn’t directly experience something, there is no way to know for sure if it happened or not. And ask yourself, how often is the information you are receiving through the internet putting you into a State of Fear? Anxiety, stress, worry, anger, telling you the enemy is of a different political persuasion or waves a different national flag than you? This is the currency the powers that be trade in, for when you are in a State of Fear, you are powerless, and they have you right where they want you. As a general rule ask yourself, is the source of your fear coming from information you received through the medium of a glowing screen? If it is, you’re being manipulated, period.

Now we know how the game is played. When you watch a magician perform an illusion, you are mesmerized so long as you don’t know how the trick is played. Once you know the sleight of hand behind the trick, it holds no power over you. The powers that be in this world only have power because not enough people know how the manipulation of perception game is played. Once they do, the jig is up. Poof! It’s gone in an instant. And where does that leave us? To our families and friends and local communities and people we can see and touch and exchange goods and services with and break bread with. It brings us back to the beginning again.

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All of history is telling this story. We are finishing a full cycle of the Great Wheel of Time. In Hinduism, we have the concept of the Yuga Cycle, composed of the four yugas, or ages: the Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. We are currently in the age of Kali, where war and suffering and strife and pain dominate. The Satya Yuga, which follows the Kali Yuga, ushers in an age of peace, love, and harmony, which finds its parallels in the Greek Golden Age of antiquity to Atlantis, Lemuria and Hyperborea. Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the most influential thinker of the 19th century, traced the moral decay of humanity from the time of the pre-Socratics of the 6th century BC to the end of the 19th century, where he said humanity had become so debased that an Overman was necessary to come in the not too distant future.

Carl Jung (PD0)

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist whose understanding of the human condition was of Biblical proportions, stated that every man and woman had a shadow, a dark side at war internally with the inner light and that each of us had to reconcile this shadow before it became our undoing.

Transformation and the struggle against spiritual darkness is the story of history. Whether that transformation and struggle occur within an individual during one human lifetime, civilization as a whole, or entire epochs composing greater ages composing a Single Great Age, that is the story of history.

And this is where the story of transformation and struggle all comes together with the Bible and artificial intelligence. I can’t help but borrow a line from the great baseball slugger for the New York Yankees, Reggie Jackson, Mr. October, who called himself “the straw that stirs the drink”. It was the 1970s; many people reading this may not have heard of him, but it was a terrific line, a bit of whimsy, but when you hear how this applies to the Bible, artificial intelligence, and this whole shit show we find ourselves in, you’ll enjoy it too.

So, the straw that stirs the drink, the rug that ties the room together, is what the Bible says precedes the new heaven and new earth, and how this applies to what we are experiencing with artificial intelligence. The Bible says in the book of Revelation chapter 20, in verses 3 and 7, that the devil will be set loose on the world to deceive the world for a short season right before the New Age arrives. It doesn’t say how long this short season lasts, and I’m not about to attempt to unravel the merits of interpreting the Bible literally or figuratively here. I’ve done that in some of my other books, and I’d refer people to them. However, on the face of it, look around at our world. Is there any better way to describe our world today than by calling it a place of Universal Deceit? The devil is the father of all lies; take that literally or figuratively. Now that we know how the manipulation of the perception game is played with artificial intelligence and how all of history is telling this story of Transformation into a New Age, where does that leave us?

Perception creates reality! The manipulation of perception with artificial intelligence is how they control you. Now you know how the game is played. Quit giving them your power. They have no power. Life is a Dream, and we make it what it is! God is Love, the Kingdom of God is within you, the Kingdom of God is Love in our hearts, the whole point of Creation is to experience Love, and there is no Love without communion. Let’s do this! And after all, it is already written! It is the story of Life Itself.